The Asian Development Bank (ADB) and the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning (UIL) cordially invite you to the webinar ‘Lifelong learning, learning cities and smart cities’ on 2 December 2021.

It will present the recently published ADB book ‘Powering a Learning Society During an Age of Disruption’, with contributions from policy-makers, practitioners, and researchers. The book emphasizes the need to build learning societies and engage many stakeholders for sustainable development and lifelong learning. How to realize this in urban areas and specifically in learning cities is the topic of a contribution by UIL in the publication.

This joint webinar will explore the importance of lifelong learning, the gains made in learning cities and smart cities and the contemporary role of education and skills development in the context of urban areas. As digitalization gathers pace, it is important to ensure equity and inclusion while putting the best of technology to work to improve education. The webinar will unpack the interconnections between education and other components that make up smart and livable cities and serve the future needs of economies and societies.

On 9 December 2021, the UNESCO’s Section of Youth, Literacy and Skills Development, the UNESCO Institute for Lifelong Learning, and the University of East Anglia (UK) will host a webinar on ‘Family literacy and indigenous and local learning’.

This webinar will explore the potential of family literacy to enhance the learning of youth and adults, placing particular attention on the ways in which children and adults share knowledge and skills in everyday life, and the roles played by parents, caregivers, grandparents, siblings, cousins and community members in intergenerational learning. In this context, the engagement between family literacy programmes with indigenous knowledge and learning will also be explored.

The webinar will be an opportunity to share the latest research, policies and practices related to family literacy, indigenous literacies, knowledges and intergenerational learning practices. It targets policy-makers, practitioners and researchers in the field of adult literacy, early childhood care and education, and other sectors interested in the field of family literacy and intergenerational learning.